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Post by thelegacy on Dec 16, 2017 21:30:00 GMT
I copied this from my Facebook Post so excuse me if it looks a little rambled!
WE have a responsibility as Hobby Radio operators to SAVE THIS COUNTRY from MUSICAL IGNORANCE!!
At the dinner table my Wife Debra brought up a video she saw of a teacher who brought in Classic Rock, Progressive Rock(Album Rock) to show and tell about it to a few 3rd graders. The results was horrifying!!
At 8 yrs old my first record was The Guess Who - Rain Dance. Anyways she played Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven. An 8 yr old child mind you had to ask the question "Why did the lady buy a stairway to heaven? How much does it cost?" [Really is America that stupid now a 8 yr old would ask this?] Watching this my Wife laughed. But this Horrified me. Then she told of how Black Sabbath - Paranoid was played to which a child asked "Why are they screaming?" Its Rock N Roll you do raise your voice and growl a little it makes it Rock N Roll.
I shock my shoulders and amazement of the musical ignorance. You mean to tell me that a child of 8 yrs can listen to The Black Eyed Peas saying I'm Oh Be over and over or a rap song called Bitches and they think this is normal but a simple Album Rock song is abnormal?
This is why I run this Radio station because if we don't save this amazingly euphoric genre called Album Rock we have no hope for the future of America. Often I hear "You don't get paid why keep running your station?" The answer is right in front and in your face. I feel I have a responsibility as a Hobby Station to educate the public about this genre that has been blocked by Top40 and Rap often choking off any true Musical Creativity. This is what I'm going to continue to drive home and if I get Donations that is cool. If not I'm still going to be the Rock N Roll savior to this country and help keep a precious musical genre from the senseless death due to big wig corporate greed. Check us out @ thelegacy.shorturl.com
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 22:09:41 GMT
The Legacy Declares a Hobby Radio Mission
Words of Inspiration: "WE have a responsibility as Hobby Radio operators to SAVE THIS COUNTRY from MUSICAL IGNORANCE!!"
True words indeed! And we have the instruments and authority of HOBBY RADIO to do the job!
Beyond radio, you can arrange to be a Classroom Guest in Music Classes and do a Demonstration and Tell Your Stories about the importance of Album Rock.
While you are there be sure to promote the wonderful hobby so the students will want to start their own stations and work together to have a school station and hand out CD recordings of your broadcasts!
There is much work to be done.
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Post by mark on Dec 16, 2017 23:13:23 GMT
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I know how you feel. My blood pressure goes up I'm sure when Rap and the synthesized junk/pop you hear on radio is called music. Or when I hear it at all.
Those kids think they are listening to music but they don't know what a real instrument is and remember the kid in a past post that said when listening to Led Zeppelin "I don't like real instruments in music"
Just the crap you hear from the boom cars that shake the building a block away makes me wish I had a rocket launcher...especially when the car stops and keeps it on in front of my house. Rap is just vulgar.
But it's not all lost....I was in a high end hi-fi place here in Toronto recently and they also carry records and I asked what you sell more of and to who and to my surprise turntables and integrated amps and to younger people more than old!
He went on to say there was a 16 year old girl just here before with an armful of beatle albums who's parents just bought her a $1000 turntable.
I don't like the fact that radio doesn't play what we grew up with and that's why I do this too....to keep rock and roll and what I like and grew up with on the radio. My era my be more Elvis to the Beatles and everything in between(including the 70s) but we are on the same page.
There's also country and that for the most part isn't synthesized and in the USA this is the most listened to music on radio, the number 1 format.
I hear you and we have an obligation to save MUSIC not just musical ignorance.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 0:00:41 GMT
My take on this is that it's culture that needs to be saved. Music is one aspect of culture. But there are plenty of other aspects, and music may just well be the least important.
It seems to me that anything that requires an attention span of more than a few minutes is being lost. From classical music (I'll also throw album rock in there) to reading books to in-depth news and intelligent conversation - all are going the way of the dodo. Thought and wisdom are being replaced with slogans and convenience (reminds me of a Dead Kennedys song, 'Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death').
I feel sorry for the current and future generations.
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 19, 2017 5:05:52 GMT
Carl this is something I totally agree with maybe that is something I should do go to a music class and tell my story about album Rock and show some examples. The first one I would probably do would be sweet the song is called Love Is Like Oxygen. Then I would play Kiama by ELO. Also for the teacher so that she would get an idea what it is I would play a really deep Track by a band called T-Set Ma Belle Amie from the album She Likes Weeds. The song came out in 1970 but it was banned in the United States because they thought it had to do with drugs. Probably because of the title of the album. Then when it hits so good in the UK and everywhere else they finally allowed album rock stations to play it. Here is the link to this track enjoy it is a deep one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 14:18:36 GMT
Can't Say Drugs in the Land of Free Speech
TheLegacy talks about American hypocricy: "The song was banned in the United States because they thought it had to do with drugs."
And yet we have had "drug stores" the entire time. Why are stores allowed to use the word "drug" but a song can't say it?
A beer is a drug, for god sake. So is coffee!
Drug. Drug. Drug. Drug. Drug.
Look what the cat drug home.
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 19, 2017 18:32:55 GMT
There was no reference to illegal drugs in the song Tee-Set - Ma Belle Amie
Maybe I'll use google translate says Ma Belle Amie means "What Pretty Friend". How do they get drugs from that. I know its french and it says more stuff in French so if someone can tell me what the rest of the song means please let me know. I'll see if I can get the words and then if I find the meaning I'll post it.
I think it was just some Album Rock haters that wanted the song banned in the USA for no good reason.
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Post by mark on Dec 19, 2017 23:45:29 GMT
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 20, 2017 6:36:12 GMT
Thanks Mark. Now I've translated the rest of the French part of it since I saw it in the lyrics copied it and pasted it to Google Translate and this is what it says after all the sunny days I just got to say thank you thank you.
And that's what I said too huh it's a beautiful track what in the world did they have to say it has anything to do with drugs. All it is just a great friendship possibly a relationship that turned into a great friendship and he is in love with that person. We assume it was female until the part "Let the bells ring. Let the birds sing, let's all give my substatute a big cheer. Let the bells ring. Let the birds sing. For the MAN AFTER HIM waits HERE. Still don't see an issue with anything drug related But the album title She Likes Weeds.. Maybe home aphobia? Remember Queen was an issue for some for that reason but they were not banned.
Anyway Ma Belle Amie is part of The Legacy's Playlist as well as other tracks from that album.
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Dec 20, 2017 14:42:48 GMT
Huh? Banned? The only way I heard this song was on the AM radio. Maybe WALG did not get the memo.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 15:11:56 GMT
How Can We Verify?
Banned?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 16:56:18 GMT
There certainly wasn't a general ban on Ma Belle Amie - I remember hearing it constantly on both Canadian and U.S. radio stations.
Individual radio stations can choose to play (or not play) whatever they want. I also remember the early 60s Dickey Lee Song, Patches, that was avoided by some radio stations due to its theme (teenage suicide). Despite that, it sold over a million copies and went gold. Ironically, just the previous year, in 1961, Pat Boone had a huge hit with Moody River, which dealt with a similar theme (but which didn't cause such a controversy).
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Post by mark on Dec 20, 2017 23:03:09 GMT
There's other songs while on the subject that were big hits but had a bad message but weren't banned for example: here's 3....Brown Sugar, Itchicoo Park and The beatles Run for your life. And a fourth....Under my Thumb by the Stones and a follow up Canadian hit by Streetheart with the same song. Here's more info on My Belle Amie. This was not the song banned but the follow up song called She Likes Weeds that was banned in N. America. But it wasn't about "weed" at all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_Set |
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Post by thelegacy on Dec 21, 2017 6:00:46 GMT
The version of That Song Ma Belle Amie I play is in stereo. As always I try to play the stereo versions of all my songs.
Another one that makes me really mad too and it's real hard to get now the stereo version of Venus by Shocking Blue. Now they put it on CD in mono. What a piece of crap I do have the stereo version of that song too. Like I say I am a little compulsive but I will not play the version in mono no way no how.
Itchycoo Park is a great track. But be careful because now that track is in mono instead of In Stereo unless you really look hard for the stereo version. I think it's sad what these labels are doing now.
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Post by mark on Dec 21, 2017 6:24:42 GMT
I think I can get you a stereo version of Venus.
There's a few others also. Here's a live version....https://youtu.be/9K10cO_kA7A
Just download this to your playlist!
Here's another great song by them....stereo....https://youtu.be/-DC46sJZ3UA
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